The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-27
A GAMBLERS LUCK.
He Borrows $5 from q Friend and
Comes Near Breaking the Bank.

NOiASS wear breaking Inc Bunk.
From the Miitrcukee Sentinel.
Starting with borrowed s. bill ito play
the bank" Conrad Stoll won $1,000 at faro
in four of the principal gambling houses in
this city between Tuesday noon and mid
night on Saturday. 1t was perhaps the
biggest winning ever made in what might
be termed a single sitting by one man in
this city, at least it is the largest i'll the
memory of some of the oldest gamblers.
1t was ''crusher" on the bank rolls"
for the gaming houses were the loosers and
1t is said that in one of the houses he broke
the bank, the proprietor being obliged to
turn the box" indicating that the capital
was exhausted. The losses were divided as
follows: Gilligan's, $4,000: Morton's, 81, 600;
Sholes's, 81 900; Towards $500.
Stoll is not professional gambler. He is
an engineer on the st. Paul road, and lives
at 500 Eighth street with his wife, formerly
Rosina Georg, who few years ago attained
considerable notoriety as proprietress OF a
dance-house in the Ninth Ward. After its
suppression by Mayor Stowell and the po-
lice, she married Stoll and settled down to
enjoy the income from the extensive prop
erty interests which she had accumulated.
Stoll followed his profession as a locomo-
| tive engineer, occasionally taking lay-otf
to "buck the tiger 1t was during one of
these periods that he strolled into the
Broadway House, on Tuesday He was
dead broker and borrowed S. to sit
into a poker game. When he quit
he had won 500 With this in his pocket he
dropped into Morton's rooms, on East Water
street, and bought "stack of chips" on the
faro layout. His stack grew larger and
then it commenced to fall, until it was down
to $40. He divided it into two stacks of s.
each, and planted it on the last turn of the
cards out of the box. One stack he cop
pered, " while the other he 'played open
1t was even chances to win or lose and he
called the turn" doubling his money.
This was the beginning of the luck that fol
| lowed him until he accumulated the $4,000.
Calling nearly every turn Of the cards,
when he quit he cashed in $3.50. Wednes-
| day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday he
played for hours each day, going from one
house to another, winning by the hundreds.
| His biggest winning was on Saturday, when
he pulled $1,000 out at Gilligans rooms
without leaving his chair. He was given
limit" of 500 on a single turn of card
out of the box, and he played it. AT mid
night Saturday Stoll called himself $1,000
winner, and had a roll wrapped up in a
81 900 certificate. The roll was las big as
your leg" as one of the profession expressed
it. However, at midnight his luck changed,
and although he played hard to regain it,
he lost steadily until o'clock yesterday
morning, when he quit the game, having
lost 800 since midnight in Gilligans rooms,
leaving him "a, 900 ''ahead of the game"
In addition to their losses to Stoll, the
houses lost considerable money to other
players, who, attracted by Stoll's unusual
luck, followed his play. One well-known
merchant won $500 Saturday night, while
the other single winnings reached into the
hundreds Stoll's exploit was the one topic
of discussion among the gamblers yester-
day.